EDC 485 S12 Class 03 - Feb 07 - 2012

• Use students' needs to enhance our planning, teaching, and assessment.
• Use our content knowledge (CK) to build pedagogical content knowledge (PCK).
• Use information technology to enhance our teaching.

Agenda

• While you are getting settled:
  • Planning Calendars / How are things going?
  • Input your planning calendars for NEXT week onto your class wikispaces.
  • If you haven't already, download Skitch and Evernote to your iPad or laptop.
  • Other free apps to download:
    • Dropbox - Save docs on pc/mac, read them anywhere.
    • IBrainstorm - Simple Post it app
    • Mindjet - Mindmapping w/ many features. Lesson planning?
    • Neu.Annotate - Annotate PDFs
• Getting to Know our Students - How can we use this knowledge to plan and teach better?
  • Share your Annotated Seating Charts
  • Trends and Patterns? Likes and Dislikes? Strengths and Needs?
  • How are you planning to meet our students needs?
  • Differentiating our teaching
    • Scaffolding, Examples, Analogies, Multi-modalities.
• Learning From Assessment - How can we use student work to improve our planning and teaching?
  • Learning from Assessment Reflection Guide (Copy "worksheet" from shared Evernote notebook we'll access in class)
  • Share your reflections/conclusions
  • Discuss Learning from Informal/Formal Assessment Assignment

Homework

• Review the URI Career Services website.
• Review Learning from Formal and Informal Assessment Assignment
• Remember: Next week's class is in Galanti Lounge from 4 -5:30 or so.